Contents:

  1. Introduction

    1. Mule Compatibility

  2. Installing & Configuring

    1. Installing

    2. Configuring

  3. See Also

Introduction

Slack is a team communication tool that provides a quick and easy way to communicate with your teammates. This connector helps to create easy and fast integrations and automation features with Slack.

Mule Compatibility

Mule 3.5.X and Mule 3.6.X

Installing and Configuring

Configuring

Connection Management

  1. Go to https://api.slack.com/web and look for your instance Token and copy the value.

  2. Go back to Anypoint Studio and create a new Slack Connector configuration.

  3. Select the Connection Management type strategy

  4. The only configuration that you will need to configure is the Access Token copied from the first step.

  5. Make a Test Connection…​ to check that the configuration is correct.

  6. Ready to use!

OAuth2

  1. Go to https://api.slack.com/applications and create an application if you don’t have one.

  2. Complete the Name and the Redirect URI(s). For redirect URI you need to specify where your application will callback in an authorization request. For this example complete it with http://0.0.0.0:8081/authorize

  3. Once you have your Application, go to Application Details a save the values of Client ID and Client Secret.

  4. Go back to Anypoint Studio and in a Anypoint Mule Application create a new Slack Connector configuration.

  5. Select the OAuth2 type strategy

  6. Fill the Client ID and Client Secret with the Application details of the third step.

  7. Click in the OAuth tab of the current configuration windows. Here you need configure where you Mule App will wait for the callback of you authorization. As the same way that we configured in the Application in Slack, fill the fields with the following data: (This data is only for Demo purposes)

    Field Name Value

    Domain

    0.0.0.0

    Local Port

    8081

    Remote Port

    8081

    Path

    authorize

  8. Save configuration. Your configuration should look like:

    <slack:oauth2-type name="Slack__OAuth2_Configuration" consumerKey="${clientID}" consumerSecret="
${consumeSecret}" doc:name="Slack: OAuth2 Configuration">
        <slack:oauth-callback-config domain="0.0.0.0" localPort="8081" remotePort="8081" path="auth"/>
</slack:oauth2-type>

  9. To authorize a user in your Mule application, you should create a flow like the following calling the "authorize" operation:

    <http:listener-config name="HTTP_Listener_Configuration" host="0.0.0.0" port="8081"  doc:name="HTTP Listener Configuration"/>
<flow name="slack-oauth2Flow">
  <http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_Configuration" path="/test" doc:name="HTTP"/>
  <slack:authorize config-ref="Slack__OAuth2_Configuration" doc:name="Slack"/>
</flow>

  10. Then in a browser enter to http://localhost:8081/authorize and authorize your user.

See Also